Okay, here it is! This user gave me a bunch of ideas. I have another one which I have just started, it was not submitted by her though... it's a surprise still...
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Kel/Lerant: Bitter Sweet Acid.
--Submitted by: SarahE7191. Situation: Submitted by no-one
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Kel was bored. She walked around aimlessly. An idea occurred to her as she walked by the quiet stables. She decided that her Knight Master's horse could do with a grooming. A long one, mind.
She walked into Drum's stall and saw that there was someone else in there, doing her job.
Lerant of Eldorne was patting the horse absentmindedly, somewhere else entirely. He was thinking and talking, muttering, below his breath.
"Lerant." Kel greeted.
He swiveled around to face her; "Keladry." He spat.
Kel raised an eyebrow but chose not to comment.
"What are you doing here?" He asked suspiciously.
"I was going to groom my Lord's horse." She picked up a brush and started brushing Drum's other side as Lerant did the other.
He glared at her; 'It's my job." He stated menacingly.
Kel stayed cool and collected; "I am his squire, it's my responsibility."
"We were doing just fine without you, you know."
"But now I am here, I am his squire, you have to accept that fact Lerant." Kel didn't skip a beat in her brushing of Drum's mane.
"You came waltzing in here. Thinking you were better than everybody else, taking the job that was mine to begin with. You had no right! You are just a wench that believes herself to be a boy. Well you are not, you have to accept that fact." He was red faced and angered.
Kel's own mask slipped as she stared at him menacingly, just as angry as the standard-bearer.
"I. Am. His. Squire." She punctuated each word as she walked forward, looking as if she might strike.
She grabbed a fistful of his tunic and brought his face close to hers.
She kissed him. Hard, and brief.
He deepened it but she pulled back.
"I know that I'm girl, I never pretended o be a boy. I accept who I am. I'm here, and I'm gonna stay. I'm not trying to take your place, I am doing my duty, just as you are doing yours." Kel whispered softly, angrily still.
She turned her heel and left. As soon as she was outside she exhaled a deep breath of air.
That was strange for her, she never blew up, let alone kissed people for no reason!
She shook her head, it must be that time of the month. Oh, how she hates monthlies!
Lerant of Eldorne leaned his head back on the stable door and closed his eyes.
She was right, of course, she was doing her job and he was doing his, they just happened to be the same.
Lerant of Eldorne learned some new things that day.
He learned to accept that Kel wouldn't be leaving anytime soon.
He learned that she took things seriously.
He learned that she was not ashamed of being a girl, as he had thought originally.
He learned that he liked the taste she left in his mouth.
The biting acid that burned.
The underlying sweetness, buried at the bottom, not found easily.
He liked it.
It was Bitter Sweet Acid.
It was Keladry of Mindelan.
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--Short and not very romance-y, but then again, I never said they were all going to be!--
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After that: probably Kel/Owen, people have been asking for that one a lot... can someone send in some more Kel Owen situations? I have the couple, I just need an idea. I don't like Kel/Owen but it was requested numerous times so I will do it, to give myself a challenge...
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8/06/08